Monday, August 30, 2010

Aug 30, 2010: Garlic Chives as a Vegetable

I originally purchased a bunch of garlic chives with the intention of making some type of dumpling. However, I worked the weekend so that plan was put on hold indefinitely.

I was reading through the cookbook, "Land of Plenty" and came across another simple recipe where the garlic chives is cooked with bacon and eaten as a vegetable. This make sense since rice is the staple for China and is kind of bland. The garlic chives being much milder than regular chives provide flavor and is long enough to be treated as a veg.

2) Fry the bacon in the oil for a couple minutes (I used strip bacon which I cut into smaller lengths).The bacon put off quite a bit of fat so I drained all but 2 T of oil/grease.Stem ends (thick parts) were added first to start cooking, stir fry for about a minute.The leaves were added and stir-fried for around 3 to 4 minutes.Add sesame oil just before plating.

3) Wait there's more... My addition to the recipe. :-)When I uses chives, I like to mix in some beaten eggs.About 1/4 of the chive-bacon mixture was used and mixed into the eggs. Here I had 4 egg whites (leftover from the Daring Baker's challenge) and 1 whole egg to give the egg whites some "color."